I'm as involved as I can be. Whenever I'm asked to do something, I always tend to show up.
The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience - there and then gone.
There are a lot of complaints by the older generation about the lack of action in this generation. My retort: give these people something to be engaged in. Cutting a check is not engaging.
I was very active in the peace movement, still am.
Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it. No involvement, no commitment.
I'm not going to sit at your table and watch you eat, with nothing on my plate, and call myself a diner. Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner.
I could either watch it happen or be a part of it.
It is extremely dangerous to talk about limits or borders. It is vital, instead, that we remain completely open, that we are always involved, and that we aim to contribute personally in social events.
I may not be as visible as I used to be, and by that I mean being in the clubhouse or on the field. But I'm just as invested as I've always been.
Ramires is involved in everything he does.
We are all in favor of the U.S. taking an active and constructive interest in Asia.
The thing is I never want to be an observer, it's only in retrospect that I wish I had observed.
I want to be out there every play.
There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.
To love is to be engaged is to work is to be interested is to create.
My style was always to put the audience in the driving seat, so they feel they're a part of the action.
To live is not enough; we must take part.
The writer cannot be a mere storyteller; he cannot be a mere teacher; he cannot merely X-ray society’s weaknesses, its ills, its perils. He or she must be actively involved shaping its present and its future.
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired.
I don't stand back and judge - I do.
In life, be a participant, not a spectator.
I think everybody who has a brain should get involved in politics. Working within. Not criticizing it from the outside. Become an active participant, no matter how feeble you think the effort is.
I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
I love being hands-on.
I'm a person who enjoys the hands-on experience of anything I do. Get your hands dirty - that's the thing that drives and motivates me.
